A# D# A#
Bad news, bad news, come to me where I sleep,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
Sayin' one of your friends is in trouble deep,
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
Tell me, the trouble tell once to my ear,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
Joliet prison and ninety-nine years.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
Oh what's the charge of how this came to be,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
Manslaughter in the highest of degree.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
I sat down and wrote the best words I could write,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
Explaining to the judge I'd be there on Wednesday night.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
Without a reply I left by the moon,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
And was in his chambers by the next afternoon.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
Could ya tell me the facts? I said without fear,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
That a friend of mine would get ninety-nine years.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
F crash on the highway flew the car to a field,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
There was four persons killed and he was at the wheel.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
But I knew him as good as I'm knowin' myself,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
And he wouldn't harm a life that belonged to someone else.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
The judge spoke out of the side of his mouth,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
Sayin' the witness who saw he left little doubt.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
That may be true he's got a sentence to serve,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
But ninety-nine years he just don't deserve.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
Too late, too late for his case it is sealed
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
His sentence is passed and it cannot be repealed.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
But he ain't no criminal and his crime it is none,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
What happened to him could happen to anyone.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
And at that the judge jerked forward and his face it did freeze,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
Sayin' "Could you kindly leave my office now, please."
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
Well his eyes looked funny and I stood up so slow,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
With no other choice except but for to go.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
I walked down the courthouse stairs and I could not understand.
Cm D# F
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind.
A# D# A#
And I played my guitar through the night to the day,
D# F
Turn, turn, turn again,
A# D#
And the only tune my guitar could play
Cm D# F
Was "Old cruel rain and the wind."
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